Danish musical life between resistance and collaborationism during WWII - Yvonne Wasserloos

Yvonne Wasserloos studied Musicology, History, German and Scandinavian studies at the WWU Münster (1996 Magistra Artium-Degree); 2002 PhD (Dissertation Kulturgezeiten. Niels W. Gade und C.F.E. Horneman in Leipzig und Kopenhagen, supervisor Klaus Hortschansky); 2014 Habilitation (Musik und Staat. Dimensionen der Interaktion im 20. Jahrhundert) at the Folkwang University of the Arts Essen. She worked as a Lecturer and Professor for Musicology and German Cultural Studies at the Universities of Berlin, Copenhagen, Düsseldorf, Leuven, London, Lüneburg and Münster. From 2017-2022 she was Professor for Musicology and Head of the Zentrum für Verfemte Musik at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Rostock. In October 2022 she will take over a professorship (Chair for Musicology) at the Mozarteum University Salzburg.

Her research focuses on music, society and politics, especially in regard to National Socialism and right-wing extremism, occupation and music in Denmark (1940-1945), (Northern) European cultural transfer, the institutionalization of music education in the 18th and 19th centuries, Memory culture and political popular music.

Credits

• Zwischen Vereinnahmung und Affirmation. Beethoven und Wagner in der NS-Rassenideologie, in: wagnerspectrum 31 (2020), S. 105-137.
• Protestgesang und verbotener Klang. „Alsang” und „Lili Marleen” in Kopenhagen 1940-1943, in: Moderne Stadtgeschichte, Themenheft „Sounds of the Towns - Stadt und Mu-sik“, 1/2017, 84-99.
• „Nordische Musik“ als Faktor der Propaganda der Nordischen Gesellschaft und der DNSAP in Dänemark um 1940, in: Matthew Gardner/Hanna Walsdorf (Hg.): Musik – Politik – Identität. Internationaler Kongress der Gesellschaft für Musikforschung; 15 (Göttingen): 2012.09.04-08. Göttingen 2016, 45-66.
• Deutsch, nordisch oder national(sozialistisch)? Gesangspropaganda und -protest in Dä-nemark 1934–1940, in: Sabine Mecking/Yvonne Wasserloos (Hg.): Inklusion & Exklusion. ‚Deutsche‘ Musik in Europa und Nordamerika 1848-1945. Göttingen 2016, 229-251.
• Songs and identity in Denmark during the German occupation, in: Culture during the World War II (1939-1945). Symposiumsband des National Liberation Museum Maribor & Institute for Musicinformation Science at the Centre for Interdisciplinary & Multidisciplinary Research & Studies of the University of Maribor, Juni 2012. (ca. 15 S.)

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